Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

— Saul Alinsky

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

— Anthony Scaramucci

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

— Pierre Bourdieu

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

— Edward Alsworth Ross

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

— Dinesh D'Souza

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

— Marianne Faithfull

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

— Raisa Gorbacheva

“Not being bored means not having to think about a lot of stupid stuff.”

— Haruki Murakami

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head…

— Max Weber

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

— Todd Gitlin

I am a sociologist, God help me.

— John O'Neill

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch